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Since 1836, RIBA recognizes outstanding architectural research and study worldwide in the yearly President's Medals awards. Competition runs high as always, with this year attracting 275 entries from 87 architecture schools in 33 countries. During a ceremony this past Tuesday in London, RIBA revealed the student winners for the Silver and Bronze...

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Not long after winning the big Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, 31-year-old artist Helen Marten was announced as the 2016 Turner Prize recipient. Regarded as one of the most prestigious visual art awards, the Turner Prize recognizes an emerging British artist under the age of 50 for...

Earlier this summer, the Tri Ân Foundation from Louisville, Kentucky wanted help from architects worldwide in designing a memorial that honors and expresses the gratitude — or “Tri Ân” in Vietnamese — for the millions of American and Vietnamese soldiers who fought against communist...

In celebration of their upcoming “Urus” project in 2018, Automobili Lamborghini wanted to commemorate the event with not only one, but two new monuments to be built in front of their company headquarters in Sant'Agata Bolognese. The luxury brand looked to architects and designers worldwide to envision...

The dream of sending humans to the Red Planet continues to inspire us Earthlings. In Ideas Forward's Mars-themed 24H Competition, participants across the globe had the chance to play with this space-age narrative by designing a Mars station habitat that is equipped to provide the necessities of everyday living. But like...

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The AA Summer DLAB continues its exploration of generative design in the 2016: ORANGE-themed workshop. A total of 21 student participants from 11 countries worked side by side during the three-week workshop, which happened at AA's London campus and Hooke Park this past July. Participants got to hone their computational design skills in developing an innovative strategy...

Following a global Expressions of Interest in September, the British Government recently announced the teams that will compete to design the National Holocaust Memorial proposed for the Victoria Tower Gardens near Parliament. After receiving nearly 100 entries from 26 countries, the jury — which includes Communities Secretary Sajid...

UNStudio and Korean firm Heerim Architects & Planners won first prize to design the Eunma Housing Development in Daechi-Dong, the main residential area in Seoul's affluent Gangnam district. Replacing the current residential towers, the new masterplan comprises of 32 towers that were designed to “respond directly to...

Religion and spirituality have always been a huge driver of architectural history, its institutions being some of the clearest realizations of ideology through structure, and belief through design. Architecture practice in itself, operating over years and through dense bureaucracies, also...